Robert Muller

Monday, June 15, 2009

[GMW #1736] An Inventory Of Hopes To Enlighten And Elevate the Human Journey

[GMW #1736] An Inventory Of Hopes To Enlighten And Elevate the Human Journey

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 356 ~ 1 July 1995

In 1974, when he created World Magazine, Norman Cousins asked me to write an Inventory of Hopes. It would be difficult for me to find the text 21 years later.

[If anyone can find Robert's Inventory in the World Magazine, please make a copy and send it to Good Morning World so it can be included in a Good Morning World daily email.]

But the idea should be revived: the UN should write an Inventory of Hopes for the 21st century and third millennium.

All nations and social groups and entities should do the same.

What an enlightenment, what an elevation of the human journey it would be!

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

It is never too late to do great things, to have bold dreams in life.

In your advanced, rich age ponder about the following extract from Beethoven's letter to his brother when he learned that he was getting deaf. It is remembered as Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament:

"My heart and mind were ever from childhood prone to the most tender feelings of affection, and I was always disposed to accomplish something great.
...Ah! how could I possibly leave the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?"

And from then on Beethoven composed his greatest symphonies!

Please think the same and say to yourself:

"Ah! how could I possibly leave the world before bringing forth all that I felt was my vocation to produce."

It might start a miracle, a new wonder-filled life for you.

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire News Archive
New: References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Photo Credit: tcrawford
Location: Fields Pond Audubon Society in Holden, ME

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

-- Albert Einstein

	Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95
	PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller
	Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

[GMW #1735] Achieving Human Happiness By Disarmament And Demilitarization And Using The Huge Savings To Reduce Poverty And Misery Around The World

[GMW #1735] Achieving Human Happiness By Disarmament And Demilitarization And Using The Huge Savings To Reduce Poverty And Misery Around The World

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 355 ~ 30 June 1995

To achieve the goal of human happiness it is high time that a Disarmament and Demilitarization Agency be created by the UN.

Any savings from disarmament and demilitarization –they would be huge– would be used to reduce poverty and misery around the world and thus increase human happiness.

I just cannot understand that the word happiness never appears in political and United Nations language and documents when it is a basic purpose of all our efforts.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

One of the greatest secrets to remain young when being old is to continue learning, working and communicating through writing and talking one's best remembrances and wisdom to the next generation, especially to children and youth.

Nobody in the world can prove to be your ideal unless you make yourself one.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Gayan
www.gratefulness.org
WORD FOR THE DAY

	Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95
	PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller
	Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order.

Friday, June 12, 2009

[GMW #1734] Decide To Be Happy - Adopt Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts

[GMW #1734] Decide To Be Happy - Adopt Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 354 ~ 29 June 1995

Everyone around the world choosing to adopt happiness and not consumption as the objective and ideal of life and of our efforts, yesterday's Idea #353, and who are not affected by miseries can make the decision to adopt and practice the following advice:

Decide to be happy
render others happy
proclaim you joy

love passionately your miraculous life

do not listen to promises
do not wait for a better world

be grateful for every moment of life

switch on and keep on

the positive buttons
in yourself, those marked optimism,
serenity, confidence,
positive thinking, love

pray and thank God every day

meditate–smile–laugh
whistle–sing–dance

look with fascination at everything

fill your lungs and heart with liberty

be yourself fully and immensely

act like a king or queen unto Death

feel God in your body, mind,

heart, and soul

and be convinced of eternal life
and resurrection

- Robert Muller

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

From a speech of Albert Schweitzer to elderly people visiting him in Lambarene:

"I cannot tell you what your destiny and future will be. But one thing I can tell you: if you are of service, you will be recompensed with untold happiness."

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

-William Shakespeare, HeartMath.com

	Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95
	PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller
	Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

[GMW #1733] Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts

[GMW #1733] Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 353 ~ 28 June 1995

I recommend that humanity should adopt happiness and not consumption as the objective and ideal of life and of our efforts.

Peace, education, beauty, love, welfare, security, etc. are only instruments to achieve happiness. If we tried, we would obtain wonderful results at incredible low cost.

The first step would be to create a World University of Happiness and to place the subject on the agenda of the United Nations. The drafters of the US Constitution did not shy from the word: the main purpose of the Constitution was "the pursuit of happiness." The World Constitution we desperately need should have the same goal plus the preservation of the Earth.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

Do not look at your lost beauty and youth when you are an elder.

Look instead at the youth inside you: the enthusiasm, the thrill of knowing so much, of having lived and experienced so much and being now able to transmit your wisdom and enthusiasm to youth.

What a beautiful relationship this can be between the elderly and posterity!

It is a whole new chapter of a fundamental new sociology, the sociology of evolution, of the passage into the future.

I can see Faculties created on it in Universities.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

-- Mark Twain

	Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95
	PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller
	Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

[GMW #1732] Extending The UN Office Dealing With Natural Disasters To Include Human Disasters Including Those Produced By The Military

[GMW #1732] Extending The UN Office Dealing With Natural Disasters To Include Human Disasters Including Those Produced By The Military

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 348 ~ 23 June 1995

We have at the UN an Office dealing with natural disasters in the world. It helps to obtain and coordinate international aid in the case of natural disasters.

I recommend, that it should be extended to all disasters, including human disasters, for example those produced by the military, and that it should become a full specialized agency of the UN.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

When reaching advanced age, ask yourself this question: what are my passions and unfulfilled dreams? And your life will be renewed and filled with wonders.

Photo Credit: Kay Schultz
Location: Westport, Washington

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

-- Alice Walker

	Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95
	PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller
	Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order.